The 243rd Commencement

University of Pennsylvania Events 1999

School Commencements

Alumni/Faculty Exchanges

Members of the University are welcome to attend the annual exchanges
taking place Friday and Saturday, May 14-15, as part of Alumni Weekend.
A full schedule of these exchanges is in May at Penn (Almanac
April 27), on the web at www.upenn.edu/almanac.

Main Commencement

Honorary Degree Recipients

Dr. Isabella Lugoski Karle, head of the X-ray Diffraction Section,
Laboratory for the Structure of Matter, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory;
her procedures are used worldwide for molecular structure analysis using
electron and X-ray diffraction techniques.

Billie Jean King, director, co-founder and CEO, WORLD TEAMTENNIS;
winner of 20 Wimbledon titles, 13 U.S. Open titles, the French Open, the
Australian Open and 20 Virginia Slims titles.

Dr. Gerda Lerner, Robinson-Edwards Professor of History Emerita,
University of Wisconsin; pioneer in the study of women's history.

Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.

Dr. Earl R. Stadtman, chief, Section on Enzymes, Laboratory
of Biochemistry, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH; pioneer
in the field of enzyme regulation.